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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 27</span><span class="fp-text">PROLOGUE, LE POÈTE À PARTICULON</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XXVII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="...  (orig.)"><span class="fp-difference">PROLOGUS, </span></span><span class="fp-original" title="PROLOGUS,   (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-no-difference">[...]</span></span> POETA AD PARTICULONEM </span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">J'avais résolu de terminer cet ouvrage,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour laisser à d'autres plus de sujets à traiter.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais depuis, je me suis blâmé de ce dessein ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car, s'il est des poètes qui désirent s'exercer dans le même genre,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">comment pourront-ils deviner ce que j'ai omis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et désirer le transmettre à la postérité&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Chacun a sa manière de penser,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">chacun le style qui lui est propre. Ce n'est donc point par inconstance,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais avec une certaine raison, que je me remets à l'œuvre.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">C'est pourquoi, mon cher Particulon, puisque vous aimez ces fables</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">écrites dans le genre d'Ésope, mais qui ne sont point d'Ésope,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car il en a publié fort peu et j'en donne beaucoup</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">plus imitant son ancienne manière dans des sujets nouveaux,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">voici un quatrième livre ; vous le lirez dans la retraite de Varia.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si la malveillance veut encore s'y attacher,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qu'elle s'y attache, faute de pouvoir l'imiter.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">C'est une assez grande gloire pour moi, de voir vous et d'autres personnes</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de mérite donner à mes ouvrages une place dans vos bibliothèques,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et me juger digne de passer à la postérité.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les applaudissements des hommes lettrés sont ma seule ambition.</span></span></span></td>
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>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n132/mode/1up">p.69</a>]</span> Cum destinassem terminum operis habere,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">in hoc ut aliis esset materiae satis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">consilium tacito corde damnavi.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nam si quis talis etiam est tituli,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quo pacto <span class="fp-correction" title="damnabit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">divinabit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="divinabit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">damnabit</span></span> quidnam omiserim</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut <span class="fp-correction" title="illum  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">illud</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="illud  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">illum</span></span> ipsum <span class="fp-correction" title="cupiam  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">cupiat</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="cupiat  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">cupiam</span></span> famae tradere,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sua cuique cum sit animi cogitatio</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">colorque <span class="fp-correction" title="prior  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">proprius</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="proprius  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">prior</span></span>&nbsp;? Ergo non levitas mihi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed certa ratio causam scribendi dedit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quare, <span class="fp-correction" title="Particula  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">Particulo</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Particulo  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Particula</span></span>, quoniam caperis fabulae</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">(quas Aesopias, non Aesopi, nomino,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="quasi  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">quia</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quia  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quasi</span></span> paucas ille ostendit, ego plures dissero,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">usus vetusto genere, sed rebus novis),</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quartum libellum dum variae perleges,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hunc obtrectare si volet malignitas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">imitari dum non possit, obtrectet licet.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Mihi parta laus est quod tu, quod similes tui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">vestras in chartas verba <span class="fp-correction" title="transferetis  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">transfertis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="transfertis  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">transferetis</span></span> mea</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dignumque longa judicatis memoria.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">In <span class="fp-correction" title="litterarum  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">litteratum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="litteratum  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">litterarum</span></span> plausum ire desidero.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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